Some Minor Adjustments For Slade's Model#587

I love how Slade looks! His animations have so much personality. I thought the chbi proportions were a tad odd, but it actually makes his head bigger and his expressions more readable!

Still, I do think there’s some adjustments to be made, especially to get him closer to Marc’s original art.

• Darken the dark-blue portions of his body pattern, and desaturate it just slightly. This will also make him have a higher contrast, which I think will make his poses even stronger, also help his clothing pop, and help him pop against the already brightly colored backgrounds

• Make his pupil, almost but not entirely, black. The yellow pupil almost disappears when put again his yellow sclera.

• Make the edge and inside of his mouth darker, to help make his teeth pop out more, and make his open mouth poses more readable

• Change the hilt of his sword so that the gold color isn’t fighting for attention against his gold coat, belt, and yellow eyes.

Pics for reference!

2nd pic is slade with the adjustments mentioned above.

Heck yea, it improves the contrast so much to make him darker

Oh yeah also he’s a bit small, I think he should be a bit taller

I also think that the model can improve, I’m not 100% buying the one in the trailer…

Another mockup

Looking at his victory animation out of engine, I think the colors may mostly be an issue of his model’s ORMS map.
I think adjusting the ORMS to closer match the out-of-engine colors would also suffice.
https://fixupx.com/JVeigaAnim/status/2023156712136446223

I do think his eyelashes/mascara could be a bit more pronounced, as well. Exaggerate those features just a little bit…

Maybe his pupils could be a little bigger, too. His eyes look kinda too scary with his biggol smile at certain points, when the trailer definitely showed a much sillier side to him

i agree with the mascara and making him juuuuust a tiny bit bigger and taller overall

Just found this thread, great job with the color edits. Thought I’d share a mockup of the model edit I’d like to see with longer eyelashes and alonger snout. Ignore the gold hook change, that was before I remembred the gold hook is an upgrade
https://rivals-of-aether-ii-patch-150.nolt.io/616

Rad mockup!!

@Darquezze306 That looks really good! I couldn’t put my finger on it until now, but the actual model looks a little bit too brutish. But the longer face and lashes bring him way closer to his original vibe.

I know that lip liner and teeth adjustments are coming for sure.

I don’t think we’re making many changes with colors.

I’m not sure if the rib gills are coming back as our lead artist is experimenting with it.

Thank you Dan!
And I know it’s minor, but I think adjusting the sword hilt, so that the gold doesn’t fight with the already heavy amount of gold and yellow on Slade’s model, would be a nice to have

truth!!! thats a very good idea. make it more bronze-ish

Peak post, I need his abdomen gills also